noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a violent incident
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Violent incidents such as kidnapping dropped sharply last year.
alleged offence/crime/incident etc
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their alleged involvement in international terrorism
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The alleged victim made the complaint at a police station in York.
an amusing story/anecdote/incident etc
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The book is full of amusing stories about his childhood.
incident room
isolated incident/case/event
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Police say that last week’s protest was an isolated incident.
ugly incident
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an ugly incident
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
isolated
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They were alarmed that the continuing growth in the number of foreign tourists could be jeopardised by an isolated serious incident .
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The law doesn't distinguish between an isolated lustful incident and a serious long-standing affair.
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The shot putt and resultant hospital visit was not an isolated incident in Roy's life.
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This friendliness wasn't an isolated incident .
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Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents .
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The apparently small and isolated family incidents observed by the family counsellor are often typical examples of family interaction.
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The brutal suppression of the insurrection of the early 1980s was not an isolated incident .
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Police, however, say that so far only one or two isolated incidents have been reported.
late
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The latest incident came to light when pupils were overheard discussing the expulsions at the Rising Sun pub in nearby Newbury.
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The somatic strip is handled in a late incident just as it is sent to an earlier one.
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Although it is impossible to be sure what happened, this latest incident follows a developing pattern of violence in the camps.
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Furness said he was satisfied with the safety measures put into place following the latest incident .
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Kites have special protection under the law and North Yorkshire Police have been notified of the latest incident .
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The latest incident follows 24 attacks - one fatal - in Hampshire over the past year.
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The latest incidents come just hours after yesterday's fatal accident inquiry into the upsurge of drug deaths in the city.
major
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Construction faults, equipment failure and inadequate training of staff were given as the major causes of incidents .
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The deadline passed without major incident .
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A Merseyside Police spokesman said the operation had passed off without major incident .
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The most recent major incident was a blast last April 1 at the Shell refinery in Martinez.
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In County Durham the A689 at Killhope was blocked but police said there were no major incidents on the roads.
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When there is a major nuclear incident it affects people well beyond the borders' of individual countries.
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However, eighteen people were killed during the year. Major incidents were at Wembley, Eccles, and Morpeth.
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This was the first major incident of its kind since the beginning of the November revolution.
minor
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Even a minor incident reveals his desperate determination to overcome, the desperation of the poor.
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Sometimes seemingly minor incidents can have a major impact on the outcome in New Hampshire.
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Before this happened, however, there were two minor incidents worthy of comment.
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Police reported a number of minor incidents but no further serious accidents.
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First, the physical injuries suffered by the children were relatively minor but the incidents which caused them were significant.
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There are, of course, always a number of minor incidents and accidents during training.
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The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents.
other
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Anyone with any information about stolen vehicles or any other suspicious incidents around the town should contact Darlington police on Darlington.
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Female speaker Could it be linked with any other incident ?
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Only other major incident was an edge of the area free kick towards the end.
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In other words the incident is exploited for personal, political, etc. gain.
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The fish has also been involved in other incidents of distress, such as having a fight with a Picasso Trigger.
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In other incidents the legal situation has been less clear.
recent
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But now I see, from a recent incident , that people are not ill any more.
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The most recent major incident was a blast last April 1 at the Shell refinery in Martinez.
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I have developed a theory to explain recent incidents in the light of what I have learned about you.
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At the last Parish Council meeting concern was expressed about a number of recent incidents .
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Efforts by the government and the judiciary to combat the cartels had been further damaged by two recent incidents .
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Two recent incidents have led me to question my responses in a job that I continue to enjoy and do well.
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In my hon. Friend's own area in Cambridgeshire there have been no recent incidents .
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If anything, though, the more recent incident had proved more damaging.
separate
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In a separate incident , a driver escaped drowning when his fuel tanker plunged into a canal.
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They shot or bludgeoned to death numerous others in separate incidents .
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The warning, from doctors at Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire, follows the separate incidents , one involving a 20-month-old girl.
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And fire crews were stoned in three separate incidents as they tried to deal with fires.
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Three people were reported to have died in separate incidents of pre-election violence.
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In a separate incident , a pensioner was knifed in the head as he sat on a street bench.
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In a separate incident , a prisoner who was being moved, broke free and vandalised furniture.
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In a separate incident , a journalist, Turan Dursun, was shot and killed on Sept. 4.
serious
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They were alarmed that the continuing growth in the number of foreign tourists could be jeopardised by an isolated serious incident .
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Among the most serious incidents occurred at a University of Rhode Island fraternity.
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Bloomington treated this as a serious gang incident .
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The only serious incident that has ever occurred involved a clear and flagrant case of product alteration and misuse.
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The police had realised how serious the incident could be, and managed to find Robert before he was physically harmed.
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The responsibility for the serious incident to which he referred was shared among several water authorities.
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The most serious incident came in April 1812 when two men were killed in attacking the well-guarded mill of William Cartwright.
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A more serious incident was when Eric Langmaid, Chief Engineer, had to repeatedly stop the generators due to overheating.
shooting
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Mr Marchant said Durham police have voluntarily referred the shooting incident to the police complaints authority for a full investigation.
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There were several bombings and shooting incidents in Ankara and Istanbul in late March and April.
similar
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A similar incident happened in the Hartest district of Suffolk.
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Preston says the tribe is looking at a precedent set in a similar incident litigated and settled out of court.
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As clashes in the capital continued there were similar incidents in the provinces of Malange, Huambo and Huila.
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Jackson and the national media were noticeably absent from Baltimore last November, when a similar incident happened.
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There have been similar incidents in Northumbria.
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One retired submarine admiral said he had never heard of a similar incident in more than 30 years in the Navy.
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In May at least 20 were reported drowned in a similar incident in heavy seas.
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It plans to write to the Crown Office to seek an assurance that a similar incident would not occur.
violent
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There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident .
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Grigsby has been plagued by several lawsuits and violent personal incidents .
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Sefton councillors this week stripped the club of its entertainments licence after being handed a police dossier detailing violent and rowdy incidents .
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In 1983 alone, 147 violent incidents were reported to the National Abortion Federation by member clinics.
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Between 1968 and 1970, there were numerous violent incidents involving shootouts between the police and members of the Black Panthers organisation.
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By March 1984, forty-four violent incidents had already been reported that year to the National Abortion Federation.
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Mr Chinotimba has been identified at the centre of several violent incidents .
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A handful of violent incidents flared before June 30.
whole
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She may even be asked to visualise the whole incident in a different way.
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The whole incident , overblown though it was, points out the need for greater coordination within government.
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The picket was charged with obstruction of the highway although the whole incident lasted for not more than nine minutes.
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Although she apologized later, I still have a bad feeling about the whole incident .
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I want to say this, too, about the whole incident .
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You can let some time pass and hope that this whole incident quickly fades away, which it may well do.
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The people, by this time, had also come to regret the whole incident and they beseeched him to stay.
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He looked as though he had stage-managed the whole incident .
■ NOUN
log
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See preceding error message in the incident log file for a fuller explanation of the error encountered.
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Check the incident log file for errors which may have occurred earlier and resolve these.
pollution
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Between 1979 and 1990, the number of reported pollution incidents from farm waste more than doubled.
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This accounts for 90 percent of reported pollution incidents .
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The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985.
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Although major disasters such as large oil pollution incidents and deaths from pesticides are few, both cause continuing problems.
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Of the 2802 pollution incidents from the industrial sources only four percent were classified as major.
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The first two chapters discuss a number of pollution incidents and the biological cycles of carbon nitrogen and sulphur.
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There are battles being fought all over Ireland about pollution incidents and industrial hazards.
room
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They've re-opened an incident room they set up in November when a fourteen year old girl was raped.
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Milton Keynes police have set up an incident room and they're appealing for any witnesses.
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Several potential witnesses have already called the incident room at Cheapside.
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The police have set up an incident room with four teams of officers working on the case.
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Blanche dictated the direct line to the incident room .
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Kate looked around her at the busy incident room .
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From a garage on the ascent out of the town she phoned the incident room .
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The police incident room in Leyland is on.
■ VERB
allege
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The Washington Post, like other newspapers, played-up alleged racial incidents to bolster scare headlines.
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Alameda County prosecutors are now looking into alleged incidents dating back to 1995, a year after he joined the church.
describe
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Mr Deane was quoted in the local paper describing the incident as' an awful shock.
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A news announcer is describing an incident that occurred yesterday in Texas.
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They've described the incident as mindless stupidity.
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Immediately preceding this extracted fragment, the narrator has been describing an incident relevant to the main story.
follow
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A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident .
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A rather typical instance of the way such fears develop can be seen in the following incidents from our practice.
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There were several repercussions following my slight incident in the clothes shop.
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He relates the following incident as an example of how superficial his understanding was during this early period.
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The warning, from doctors at Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire, follows the separate incidents , one involving a 20-month-old girl.
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The warning follows a number of incidents in Coalisland when fireworks were thrown.
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It follows an incident in which a horse became trapped on a gate.
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The arrests follow an incident on Sunday when a man hailed a passing ambulance on the A12 near Chelmsford.
happen
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The incident had happened on the return journey.
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I should add that these three incidents happened to intelligent, middle-class patients in hospitals with international reputations.
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In addition there are difficulties associated with trials relating to incidents which happened in times long gone by.
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Jackson and the national media were noticeably absent from Baltimore last November, when a similar incident happened .
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Such incidents happen with greater or lesser degrees of seriousness at regular intervals in all our lives.
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This was a routine dawn incident that happened in Tuffah last month.
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Of all the incidents described, what happened when?
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Three parachuting colleagues and the plane's pilot were unaware of the incident as it happened .
investigate
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Police said they were investigating the incident as a petrol bombing.
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Cooper and Santos emphasized that their job was not to investigate specific incidents but to listen and offer suggestions.
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Steps were immediately taken to recover the diplomatic mail and to investigate the incident .
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Police are investigating the incident at Allistragh on the Moy Road.
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Police are now investigating the incident .
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Mr Jones suggested that Physic News magazine should be approached with a view to investigating the incidents and perhaps providing a satisfactory answer.
involve
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Officers say up to fifteen young men were involved in the incident , in which a white Rover car badly damaged.
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Both were involved in high-profile incidents last semester that heightened racial tensions on campus.
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It is understood Mr Pringle was involved in the earlier incident , and that the shootings were over his relationship with Leanne.
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The driver of the lorry involved in the fatal incident was charged on Aug. 29 with dangerous driving.
isolate
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I assume this is an isolated incident , as the Windows message that comes up would surely alert any keen quality controller.
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This does not seem like an isolated incident .
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It is not an isolated incident .
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But he insisted they were only isolated incidents .
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And this was not an isolated incident .
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At first, I wrote these off as isolated incidents .
recall
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Can you recall any suspicious incident , or comment, however trivial it may have seemed, which could help our investigation?
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David Kaczynski recalled an incident at the family dinner table when Kaczynski was about 12 or 13.
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Simon does not elaborate, but his face begins to tighten as he recalls some disagreeable incident .
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Gerald Bellamy recalls a rather macabre incident following this raid.
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I can, for instance, recall an incident which provided interest to the customer, and much amusement for me.
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The doctor warned her that recalling the incident might trigger a setback for Sergei.
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How indeed, writes P Kevan of Liverpool, who recalls a similar incident .
relate
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In addition there are difficulties associated with trials relating to incidents which happened in times long gone by.
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Broadus also faces another court hearing involving a felony gun possession charge not related to the Woldemariam incident .
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On yet another attempt to kill the Chowgarh tigress, Corbett relates the following intriguing incident .
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He relates the following incident as an example of how superficial his understanding was during this early period.
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Confidence in police handling of race-\#related incidents has also plunged.
remember
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Dexter smiled to himself as he remembered that incident .
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Janet began college in the late l98Os and remembers the racial incidents of that period.
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After discussing this particular case of suttee, the diners went on to remember past incidents of the same nature.
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I remembered incidents , fragments, and these became La Strada.
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He can hardly remember anything about the incident .
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We stayed in Lehrte for three months, but I remember few incidents from it.
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But he remembered yesterday's incident in Marie's kitchen.
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But about a year ago she had begun to remember incidents which she must hitherto have blocked from her mind.
report
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No one should be afraid of reporting any incident that occurs.
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That was more than the 324 reported incidents of anti-gay harassment and violence.
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Another survey in 1994 found 57 percent of towns with over 25, 000 residents reporting gang incidents .
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Nearly half of the reported incidents involved falls off the snowmobile or collisions with another snowmobile.
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She admitted failing to report the incident , and withholding information when interviewed by the police.
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The very nature of anonymous reports naturally prevented any possibility of retribution against wrong-doers reporting the incident .
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Serious discussion of the phenomenon began with a debate over the role of the press in reporting violent incidents at football matches.
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She has suffered this abuse for almost 9 months and has reported every incident to the police and council.
shoot
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Mr Newton was shot after an incident in which he slapped Clifford's wife.
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Their house has been the reported scene of other shooting incidents .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Apart from the incident in Las Vegas our vacation was completely trouble-free.
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Friday's shooting incident in East London led to several arrests.
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One violent incident turned into a political and family tragedy.
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The fans were well behaved, and the game was played without incident .
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Three people were arrested in connection with the rock-throwing incident .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agricultural pollution accounted for more than 10 percent of total incidents, and for a third of the major ones.
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From the point of view of societies, economies and the countless incidents of short-term history, civilizations must seem immortal too.
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Jewell Parker Rhodes' novel is based upon true incidents related but altogether forgotten by blacks and whites alike.
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The incidents are, as I said, legion.
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The allegations all relate to an incident on Sunday October 25.
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The North then invaded the South and the Gulf of Tonkin incident followed.
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This incident was notable only because it was my first seizure made on board a cutter.